{"id":82,"date":"2012-03-17T00:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T00:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=82"},"modified":"2012-03-17T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T18:55:14","slug":"voters-are-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Voters are stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters are stupid<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, yeah.\u00a0 A candidate promises to lower the oceans and people vote for him.\u00a0 Are the oceans any lower?\u00a0 When the tide goes out, sure.\u00a0 Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if BHO pointed to that and said, “See?” and people voted for him again.\u00a0 The article covers people thinking he’s a Muslim, which doesn’t make them stupid.\u00a0 It just means they think he’s a Muslim, and there isn’t any evidence to the contrary, just claims.\u00a0 Claims do not equate to evidence.<\/p>\n

But my favorite is that people think the president can affect “the day-to-day price of fuel in a global market.”\u00a0 No, people aren’t saying he can affect the day-to-day price of fuel.\u00a0 But we do think his policies will affect prices over the long run.\u00a0 Prevent pipelines<\/a> and totally botch Brazilian oil deals<\/a>, and the prices will be higher than if we had a pro-gasoline president.\u00a0 We don’t, so the price is through the roof in an election year.\u00a0 Way to go, BHO.\u00a0 You own this one.<\/p>\n

So what’s this Democrat party pollster up to?\u00a0 It’s a familiar narrative.\u00a0 When a Democrat party president can’t deliver, it’s because it’s not possible to deliver.\u00a0 The job’s too big for one man<\/a>.\u00a0 Too big for Obama, apparently.\u00a0 The too big for one man narrative appeared in 2010, less than two years into his presidency.\u00a0 It’s interesting he didn’t admit this while campaigning.\u00a0 Instead he used the standard Democrat party arrogance of thinking the current Republican president either couldn’t do things, or just hadn’t bothered to do them.\u00a0 A Democrat party candidate thinks he can accomplish anything just through the force of his personality.\u00a0 In BHO’s case, he could give speeches and the mountains would move.\u00a0 Or the oceans would lower.<\/p>\n

So what do we have now?\u00a0 A failed olympic bid.<\/a>\u00a0 And he gave a speech, too.\u00a0 Not so easy, is it, Mr. President.\u00a0 There was the Cairo speech, and now they’re burning effigies<\/a> of the guy in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Maybe they don’t have TV there.\u00a0 Green energy?\u00a0 He could feed a lot of poor for the money he poured into those boondoggles.\u00a0 And is Gitmo closed yet?\u00a0 I’ve already mentioned the gas prices, which you all experience at the pump.<\/p>\n

So yes, a competent president can lower gas prices if he makes sure we have enough oil and refineries to supply the population.\u00a0 Thinking that doesn’t make a voter stupid, it just means he or she will make a better choice next time and not be hoodwinked by speeches enhanced by reverb and phony Styrofoam Greek columns.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voters are stupid.\u00a0 Well, yeah.\u00a0 A candidate promises to lower the oceans and people vote for him.\u00a0 Are the oceans any lower?\u00a0 When the tide goes out, sure.\u00a0 Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if BHO pointed to that and said, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrat-party","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}